Grata is the world’s first Recognition Platform. It was created to acknowledge, document and reward the exceptional efforts of America’s front-line/service sector employees. The 80M hourly-working class people who we all now recognize as the lifeblood of our businesses and our country now have a LinkedIn-like environment to record their exemplary work history, connect in a professional community with their customers, employers and future employers (like those of us in a white-collar/LinkedIn & Salesforce enabled world). The great deeds of our barista’s, repair mechanics, grocery cashiers, health care workers, retail salesclerks and more now become a part of their permanent record. And these same employees can record and move with the book of business (satisfied customer lists) they development. Grata also means upside for their employers in Customer Engagement and opportunities to drive Brand Affinity and grow Topline Results. And with 1 in 5 top performing CRS’s slated to quit their jobs (due to lack of recognition) in the next 12 months – the average replacement cost of $2500 per frontline worker is a massive and avoidable expense. Grata helps in the retention and development of existing staff while building deeper customer relationship via a social /business media platform.For the first time ever, businesses can collect data and performance analytics on their last-file (customer facing) workers complete with dashboard analytics and incident alerts. Grata provides a seamless experience to facilitate the collection of live customer feedback on an individual contributor level.Based in Dallas and Austin Texas - Grata is both a native consumer app that allows Customers to build their own “Angie’s List-like” group of favorites (people they want to visit again and again). It is also delivered via API as a B2B SaaS feature/function to enable the POS systems and the digital mobile assets of retailers, service companies and virtually any brand.www.GrataPro.com

Excited to be working with so many talented entrepreneurs at this phenomenal organization.

Strategic Delivery & Human Capital committees.Helped drive digital transformation of bank technologies, systems and processes.

(2010-Present) University of Texas - Austin. Technology Marketing and Advertising. C-Level executive speaker series on trends, technologies and case histories from the leading companies shaping Silicon Valley. New Media and Entrepreneurialism courses as well.Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee - Moody CollegeBridging Disciplines Committee(2015) Southern Methodist University – Dallas - Technology Industry Advertising & emerging technology / new media. (Mobile, Augmented Reality, SEO, et).

First ever Division 1 Athletics Coach of Entrepreneurship. This role was created under Head Coach Tom Herman and Coach Kevin Washington to help student athletes explore entrepreneurship, prepare for the upcoming NIL (Name Image and Likeness) opportunity and generally support, counsel and encourage student athletes with career counseling.

As Global Chief Marketing Officer at Rackspace, I am directly responsible for worldwide marketing strategy and leadership across all aspects of the marketing organization including communications, brand, advertising, creative services, digital, field and channel marketing. In this role, my leadership objective is to ensure all customers of Rackspace understand the full breadth of Rackspace offerings as an unbiased, trusted advisor in today’s multi-cloud world. My charge is to accelerate and transform the Rackspace brand and expand our service offerings throughout the US and around the world as we scale the value of the cloud for our customers and accelerate growth at Rackspace.

Venture Partner @ S3VC - the largest venture firm in tech in Texas

Apollo (LIghtspeed) - Facilitated the creation of new business models, built sales and development teams, marketing plan development (lead generation to branding). Instrumental in broad set of responsibilities including hiring of senior executive members (across operating disciplines), develop strategies for consumer and B2B product lines, liaison with government (DC) initiatives and development of $70M Offering.

CEO - TechMedia CapitalTMC operates as the holding company for SkyTV and a myriad of private equity investment (High tech and media). For more information on SkyTV please visit www.SkyTV.net and for a roster of portfolio investments see www.MarkBunting.com

SkyTV was the worlds largest producers of technology related video and television programming. With over 400 computer and consumer electronic clients, SkyTV is a preferred content creation resource, marketing consultancy, advisor and strategic communication partner to many of the world's most successful technology brands.

Brought on by Board of Directors/ Interim CEO to lead turn-around efforts after executive turmoil left much of the leadership suite vacant. Drove reorganization of channel and field marketing strategies, creating new brand platforms and product development. Helped re-engineer channel marketing construct into field support (centralized) operations ($120M annually). Marketing efforts helped push Site Advisor (consumer product) to secure a 20M+ installed user-base over four months.

High powered offense-minded CEO with responsibilities from product development guidance, M&A, to team building.

TechTV - Ziff-Davis 24/7 cable channel on technology and electronics (Joint venture with Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures). Post SkyTV acquisition - ran division.